Twitter Australia

Recently I (@niphal) conducted a self-administered survey of what I like to call Twitter Australia. Personally, I find that Twitter although useful to network with - was not the easiest to use in terms of broad overviews of groups of people. I was unable to find a list of people around Australia that wasn’t a ‘king of the mountain’ list and Twitter’s search function wasn’t working. So I just asked a few things of people and said I would release the results. Thank you for participating if you are on the list, it has been great to see that not everyone on Twitter is a web nerd.

I hope you can use this list to make new connections and network with people, it’s not very high tech or web 2.0 but I hope it is useful. Leave a comment or tweet me if you would like to be added to the list.

Advertising

Blogging

Christian

Computer Science

Firstly keeping in touch, but I also love that Twitter acts as a human filtered search engine. I find the information I need often before I’ve asked for it and always through the eyes of people who know their stuff.

Design

Education

Engineering

Entertainment

Twitter/micro-blogging is great for keeping in touch with a huge range of eclectic people, which is essential for the development of my online businesses and if you add someone annoying it’s easy to remove them! :)

Financial Services

Government/Public Service

  1. I love connecting with people in my industy (well, you wrote that so well ;-)
  2. Excellent resource for listening to our customers.
  3. Excellent resource for sharing news and views.
  4. Getting a feel of the changing consumer emotions/sentiments
  5. The speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed of it all
  6. Accessibility (I can tweet via web, mobile and email)

Graphic Design

Health/Medical

Homemaker

Information Management / Library

I am not an IT or techie person & am very much a novice. but i’m intrigued by what digital social networking does and can do. I feel like I’m stumbling around it all - but its worthwhile nonetheless. would like to engage with networks who aren’t digital minded - basically am assuming that non-digital folks will get in on twitter eventually.

IT

Law

Market Research

To stay in touch with local and international happenings and friends, because I’m a lazy blogger (haha no, seriously), because it is instantaneous, because I like to be heard and I like to listen (read). Also, I have a kickass list of people I follow and follow me, who always keep me on my toes :)

Marketing

Media

It’s like the best part of Facebook or chat programs, the status lines, without all the silly apps. I like seeing what people are up to in industries, places, hobbies that I’m interested in. Have got some good tip-offs to cool sites and activist stuff too.

It’s kind of like a weather report of what’s going on on the internet :)

Music

Online Media

Photography

Politics

Public Relations

Staying connected and getting MORE connected to my networks. I “gold-pan” through tweets most mornings to see what grat tidbits have come through. I love participating in worldwide, real-time conversations, especially at significant times. I love the serendipitous (and occasionally chaotic) nature of twitter - finding followers/new people to follow/ just stumbling over grat stuff or interesting people.

Retail

Social Media

Software / Software Development

I use it to crowdsource solutions, answer questions, demonstrate my geekiness, connect to super-stars of Aus and the world (@mpesce, @StephenFry, @Wilw, etc), and blather on about other stuff that no-one cares about. There is no *one* reason to Twitter

Student

Technology

Telecommunications

I love being able to quickly see what everyone is doing and get a quick response from people in a variety of fields when I need some input or feedback on a problem or solution. Not to mention it’s a great way to locate people in my area that have similar interests to myself and to keep up with things that are happening in my area, as well as nationally and globally!

Web / Web Design / Web Development

I’m not an outwardly social person but I have things to say and twitter let’s me do that in a better way than I’m plus I can’t stand the ‘noise’ of facebook or myspace, and currently don’t blog much

Others

50 Comments

Mat Packer  on November 13th, 2008

Nice work Andrew. Quite a few people there I don’t know, time to go do some adding.

Cheers
Mat

Andrew  on November 13th, 2008

Thanks Mat,

Hope it’s really helpful for lots of people being able to find people to connect with. And you too!

Stephen  on November 13th, 2008

I agree. Being relatively new to Twitter this is rather handy. Nice work :)

Stephen

Andrew Beeston » Twitter Australia : Does Location Really Matter? (Sydney Rules!)  on November 14th, 2008

[...] on from the list of respondents in the Twitter Australia survey, I have sorted out a list of people’s locations. Some [...]

Andrew  on November 14th, 2008

Great stuff Stephen, glad it could be helpful again.

NathanaelB  on November 14th, 2008

Hey can you add me @NathanaelB under Web Design and/or Government?

Stephen Collins  on November 14th, 2008

I’m not sure where you might add me… Take your pick of Communications, Social Media, Web, Technology…

Markus Hafner  on November 14th, 2008

Hey Andrew,

Can you add me (@eskimo_sparky) under:

Recruitment
Management Consulting
Marketing
Advertising
Internets

Thanks!

timelady  on November 14th, 2008

Lot of effort involved - thanks mate:)

Jack  on November 14th, 2008

Add me (@JackDOSKelly) to CS or Student.

Simon Pascal Klein  on November 14th, 2008

@klepas, under:

Graphic Design
IT
Student
Web / Web Design / Web Development

(:

Riayn  on November 14th, 2008

A fantastic list of Aussie tweeters. I am finding lots of new people to follow.

Canberra Twitter folk - get your name on the list! :: Nathanael Boehm on the Internet, web UX design, social networking ...  on November 14th, 2008

[...] on - I know there’s way more active Twitter users in Canberra, so head over to the Twitter Australia list and leave a comment or send a tweet to @niphal to get yourself [...]

Warlach  on November 14th, 2008

Good work, certainly a lot of people I haven’t met yet, which is great. :)

Kimota  on November 14th, 2008

Hi,

can you add me (@kimota) under Marketing and possibly Online Media and Blogging?

ta. Great effort.

zuzu  on November 14th, 2008

I (@zuzu) can be added under Government, Web Design. Ta!

andrew  on November 14th, 2008

Hi, you add me @andrewbarnett under General Ratbaggery, or possibly IT.

fumpT  on November 14th, 2008

Hi Andrew

Please add @fumpT to:

Christian
Government
IT
Telecommunications

Cheers,
Andrew G.

Rowen Atkinson  on November 14th, 2008

While you are adding :) @scttw under, Web and (Occasional) Photography: Wollongong NSW

wheelyweb  on November 14th, 2008

Hi Andrew
Can I be added to the Web and Technology categories (instead of other) and wondered if you see Strategy or Digital Strategy as a viable category? I don’t feel the description of “other” covers my presence, except for not liking the noise of MySpace or Facebook.

Andrew  on November 14th, 2008

Great - I’ve added a whole bunch of new people, feel free to let me know some more :)

Ash  on November 14th, 2008

Sweet. Some interesting results there, and I’ve already had a few new followers. I’m not so much a random Twitter follower, but I’m always up for meeting new peeps.

KatieTT  on November 14th, 2008

hiya- you can put me under Library - thnks

CW  on November 14th, 2008

@flexnib - Please add me under Info Mgmt/Library :)

Andrew  on November 14th, 2008

@Wheelyweb, once people have two or more people in a category I will create a heading for it and more can go under that heading. Viable = a couple or more :)

fumpT  on November 14th, 2008

Wow! The “Others” group is nice and diverse.

And the Web group keeps growing and growing!

Peta  on November 14th, 2008

@inn0va - Information Management/Library

Dean  on November 14th, 2008

I’d fit best under Government, cheers. @deanlk

Dramagirl  on November 15th, 2008

Great job. Twitter’s really tweeting down under. Very useful to have this directory. Cheers.

Riayn  on November 15th, 2008

Andrew I would love to be added to the list but not sure where I would fit in. Do you have a section for lesbian geeks?

mediamum  on November 15th, 2008

Hi there
Could you add me under Media and Education? I don’t like Homemaker as a category though. Mummy blogger might be a decent substitute?

Tiara  on November 15th, 2008

ooo, you have my friends in there :)

Could I (divabat) be added under Other - Youth Engagement/Alternative Education? It’s hard enough trying to find other interested people in Twitter, so hopefully this would help! :)

Glenn Murray  on November 17th, 2008

Nice Andrew. Thanks for this. Think you might have created a rod for your own back though! You’ll need to db all of this soon! Multiple categories, paid listings… Fun fun fun! Goodonyamate!

Glenn

Andrew Beeston » Why Do You Use Twitter? (Collective Effervescence)  on November 19th, 2008

[...] of the biggest things I found with the TwitterAustralia survey was that people love just connecting. I think there’s comfort in the fact that people [...]

Paul Roberts  on November 24th, 2008

Hi Andrew

Please add me to your list:
@conem
Government/Public Interest

cheers!

ForsakenDAemon  on November 24th, 2008

This is really cool!

I was just wondering whether you could add me into the ‘Software/Software Development’ category, and also under ‘Other’ with the label ‘Queer’? I use Twitter for too many disparate things… lol

Thanks so much!

DAemon
@ForsakenDAemon

Ruth Ellison  on November 28th, 2008

Hi Andrew, here’s another for your list

@ruthellison

Government
Web
And… are we able to get a User Experience category created for User Experience/Usability/Accessibility/Information Architects folks? ;)

Cheers!

Andrew  on November 29th, 2008

Hey Ruth, sure thing you have been added. If you know other UX people let me know and I can add the category.

hp88  on November 29th, 2008

Please add me under photography @hp88 Great job, thank you! (I am very new to this btw)

entregreeneur  on November 30th, 2008

Hi Andrew,

Was sitting near you @ #wordcampau today :-)

I’d place myself in a number of categories.

The primary ones at this point:

Government/Public Service (Greens councillor)
Green Business (consultant)
Marketing (consultant)
Politics (Greens councillor)
Web/Web Design/Web Development (career history)

Thanks!

Bradley C Hughes

stokely  on November 30th, 2008

Thanks for the list. :)
Can you add stokely to media and web please?

Cheers!

danjim  on December 3rd, 2008

Hey I live in canberra and I am a twitter user… @danjim. Please add me under design : )

Thanks,

Daniel

Tim Malone  on December 28th, 2008

G’day,

You can add @tdmalone too, Canberra blogger and recently got started on Twitter too.

I’d fit into a few categories… primary categories would be Media, IT and Christian.

Secondary categories - if you want to - would be Photography, Blogging, Politics and Web Development.

Cheers!

Life in the Fast Lane » Blog Archive » Blogs Rankings and Rounds  on January 15th, 2009

[...] Medbloggers (@DrCris) and Aussie key Twiterers [...]

Joel_Wigley  on January 20th, 2009

I’m a Canberra Twitter user, @Joel_Wigley. Can you add me under I.T and Photography?

Cheers.

Fiona  on January 20th, 2009

pick me pick me. @phonakins. Not sure what I’m come under? ?health ?blogging ?education ?random crap

Craigthomler  on February 5th, 2009

Hi

Add me as another Canberra tweep under government, marketing and web

@craigthomler

Cheers,

Craig

dizzyparenting  on February 9th, 2009

Add me, add me! @dizzyparenting

Stu  on March 21st, 2009

This is a great list Andrew - here’s something else to add into the mix. I pulled together a list of Australian Creative Industries (organisations mostly) on Twitter:

http://thesocialpages.net/2009/03/16/australian-creative-industries-on-twitter/

shutterstation  on May 25th, 2009

Good list, thanks!

I’m in Australia and tweetering on @shutterstation about photography. And funnily I’m using the same theme as you on my website!

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